Radio man apology for race comment (Sydney riots)

CLAIMS that Sydney's race violence has been stoked by talkback radio were reinforced today when a radio announcer was forced to apologise for on-air comments about Lebanese Australians.

Macquarie Radio station 2GB's late night announcer in Sydney, Brian Wilshire, had accused some Lebanese of being inbred.

"Many of them have parents who are first cousins whose parents were first cousins," he told listeners to his 9pm-midnight show.

"The result of this is inbreeding – the result of which is uneducationable (sic) people...and very low IQ."

Wilshire's comments were greeted by outrage in Sydney, where thousands of police are preparing to mount road blocks this weekend to prevent a repeat of the race riot at Cronulla beach.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17587834%255E1702,00.html

Dumb!

:dunce:

across the globe has fuelled the worst in humanity.

Lord. :eyes:

Are Australian children learnicating to speech right?

speech and should not be held accountable. All the crap Limpball, O'Lielly, Ann the man (not to mention the ViceP and religious leaders) have called gays, liberals, minorities and anyone the who wants to help the poor in this country. It is just amazing that people here are so calm about the insults and slurs thrown at them through the air waves. I guess we are just more tolerant. True we have a few liberal talk show hosts who sometimes get carried away with their frustration with the administration but it is no where near as constant and deliberate as the right wing wacko Christian air waves. We are lucky our minorities are more restrained.